Thursday, October 11, 2012

While Apple
Inc.(NASDAQ:AAPL) and Samsung is busy to make it big at the high-end smartphone
market, Microsoft Corporation(NASDAQ:MSFT) is getting ready to release it new
Windows 8 mobile operating system. Rogers has declared it will own exclusive
rights to the flagship Nokia Corporation (ADR)(NYSE:NOK) Lumia 920, which is
one of the first smartphones to run on Windows Phone 8 operating system.

26th October
is the day when Windows Phone 8 was launched in North America. Rogers had
promised the Lumia 920 which is a Windows 8 smartphone that will operate on the
new, higher speed LTE network. It is supposed to be available in November, even
though the company has not released a specific date yet.

The Lumia 920 signifies
Nokia’s most recent attempt to handle Apple and Samsung’s dominance in the
smartphone market.

At the same time, the
rate of growth for Android and iOS devices has topped the charts of any
consumer technology in history, as per the research company Flurry Analytics. Flurry
wrote in one of its blog post that compared to latest technologies, adoption of
smart devices is recorded as 10x faster that it was during 80’s PC revolution
period, 2x faster that it was in ‘90s Internet boom and 3x faster than the
latest adoption of social networks.

The latest Lumia 920
comes with Nokia’s PureView camera technology that allows five times more light
than any other smartphone camera. This lets a wider range of flash-free photos
in low light. And the floating lens it comes with delivers superior picture stabilization,
for a combination that could give Nokia a unambiguous edge when it comes to
smartphone cameras.

A host of other
features make Lumia 920 a compelling device. The capability to charge
wirelessly, offline maps, better visibility under direct sunlight and ability
to communicate with touch screen with gloves on are some of them.